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István Sallói

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Born
1966 (57 years old)

Birth Place

Oroszlány, Hungary

Position
Attacking Midfield

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Height
187 cm

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Soccer

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_No League Soccer

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István Sallói (born 26 September 1966 in Oroszlány) is a former Hungarian football player who came from a real football family. His grandfather played lower divisions and became a referee later. His father played in the Hungarian first league at Tatabanya FC.

Started his career at Videoton FC young team (1981) and became professional player 1986. Played for ETO FC GYOR (1988–1989) as loan player meanwhile he served his army duty at Győr. Returned to Videoton and became the captain and the leader in his home team. His best year was 1992-93 when he was invited to the national team and voted as the Player of the Year and finished 2nd best scorer. He signed for Honved with the aim to be champion and get an offer from abroad. End of the year of 1994 he accepted the offer from Beitar Jerusalem.

At Beitar Jerusalem F.C. he was known as "Stefan" as the people there had a lot of difficulty in pronouncing the name "István". Played five beautiful years for Beitar and became one of the most favorite foreign player ever played for them. Although he played behind the striker role, he became the best scorer in Beitar in those years and still he is the best Israeli scorer in European competitions with 12 goals. Finished his career at Herzelya in 2000, playing for them 18 months.

Sallói is the father of Dániel Sallói, who currently plays football at Sporting Kansas City.